MyDearDiary.com - suzibikerbabe's Diary Notes

The a....ogy is more like ... no one's been guarding the chicken house, the farmer has been raiding his own eggs (eating some, but most of them he's stored in his fridge), the wolves have eaten a great many chickens and the family is facing a bleak future so the government (huge, hungry bear) wants the family to give them what few eggs they have to give to the farmer. Also, the farmer has plenty of assets in pigs, beef and sheep to help out his egg business but this is kept suspiciously out of sight of the family; only a few have taken the time to dig deeper than what the farmer and wolves have told them.

Why isn't the farmer made to hand over all his eggs; all the other farmers have to do this and are usually imprisoned afterwards?

Why are the poor family members being made poorer in order to bail the farmer out?

Why isn't the farmer not only stripped of all his eggs, but fired and left to the pack of wolves who enjoy eating farmers?

Why is the bailout ONLY solution being talked about? (Bailout = family must give their few eggs to the farmer even though they gathered their eggs on their own farms) the

And, it's a moot point since the bill passed. Welcome to financial socialism/fascism/communism.

Maybe from the perspective of where we are it would seem we're damned either way but let's examine the two top outcomes.

We bail out the bunch of greedy, raping, asshole elites. They pay nothing for their part and continue to get rich, until the bailout's temporary "benefits" run dry; which would be in short order, less than a year I'd say. The AE's (asshole elites) spend their money within their tight group of fellow elitists assholes with that group becoming smaller with each passing month. In the meantime the rest, as they fall into whatever financial bracket on the ladder from the near-AE, AE wannabees, wannabee AE wannabees, upper/middle/lower class (not much difference between them because the only thing that separates them in the length of notice given them by their employers). As the money floats to the top (the VERY top) the rest are poor and without the money flowing beneath the surface business begin to fail at an alarming rate prompting banks to close the doors on giving out any loans while at the same time calling in all debts; this leads to foreclosures on a scale not even seen after 1929 and the number of people pouring out into the streets causes only one industry to flourish -- protection. Keep in mind, without working people who actually pay taxes there are no safety nets for the average citizen and all social services are overwhelmed and eventually, close their doors. Protection would come in the form of military police (a state of emergency has already been declared and at one word -- yes, in reality -- bushbaby Marshall law would be in effect over night) who have the backing of the government to treat all people (not in the AE layer) as scum first, then terrorists, as the disenfranchised turn their anger and fears to the group who caused this to be the outcome: the AE's which, for the most part, are top government officials who spend most of their time, and money, outside the U.S. There is no one left here who caused the downfall, so the people turn against each other. We degrade into a state of the angry, aggressive mob mentality.

Scenario #2: No bailout, the shit hits the fan and creates a level field of a nation filled with poor who have to rebuild ... either in the same image as before or, hopefully, learning from such horrible mistakes and rebuilding with safeguards in place. Since the government is nothing but one, large corporation out to get the most out of its victims before hightailing it to greener fields they will fail --- and fall from their high places ending up like anything that plummets from a great height to a hard ground. It would take decades to rebuild our system and in the meantime, aggressive groups could possibly see us as unprotected and easy pickings. Again, military would factor largely as a means to find work for people and ultimately "money" and great care would have to be taken to not see everything and everyone outside our borders as enemies most of whom, if we care to see, have been tied up tightly in the beds of our former leaders and their countries will have suffered a fate much like ours. They, too, would be in dire straights trying to rebuild and it would be to our benefit to use this nearly world-wide level playing field to create friendships and form allies in new ways that bring back the intent of the U.S. founding fathers into a new era. We would have the opportunity to rid ourselves of self-serving, greedy, dictators who stole what rights were left after large groups of us voted to give away the others. We'd be able to abolish many laws such as the Patriot Act; we'd be able to return the Constitution to what it was with new additions to accommodate a more world-wide friendly document. It would be hard work, take our lifetimes but it could be very well worth it.

Of course there are many other ways things could turn out but no matter which way this turns out, we will suffer -- you, me, the majority of the American people -- but we have to look beyond today, tomorrow and next year .. we have to look to the world our grandchildren will be living in and do now what it will take to make that world happen. Sometimes the best way to start over isn't from a small setback but from a large falling apart. Like when the colonists broke away, something very good came out of a total start-over -- sadly, that good has been undermined and near extinction but who knows, we may rise out of the ashes to form something even better.

My point. I have many I suppose but mainly I see this as a means for punishing people for being poor. I have been there and no, I could not afford fresh fruit and vegetables for my children and relied heavily on rice, potatoes and bread. If I could scrape enough together to treat my children the best I could hope for was a place like McDonald's who, in this system, is doing what they're suppose to do: provide a service by filling a 'niche'. Now that the government has run to ground their attacks on smokering and drinking, it's easy to now vilify another because everyone just loathes fat people and who's going to object?

And what is it about you that will be next on the chopping block; what about your glass of wine after dinner or a leisurely drive along the roads at night but hey, you're over 50 and your reflexes aren't good and that eyesight is doubtful so yes, your license should be revoked and this time it can be done in the name of public safety. And would you look at that, drinking is already a villain because we all know that glass of wine, even if you wait three hours to drive, is going to make you unsafe so therefore, you are a criminal .. just like all those people driving around not wearing seatbelts or helmets are endangering us all. Do you not see how more and more we, normal law-abiding citizens, are fast becoming criminals?

While you may joke about asking people to tie you up to stop you from doing something like eat a double cheeseburger and fries, it's not funny. We are, as a race and in this culture, showing a decided lack of self-restraint. More and more we aren't governing our own behavior and are gladly advocating that responsibility to our government. Let's take a brief look at government now and in the past ...

... are you crazy? Giving up so much to a group who lacks morality and ethics; a group who lies, cheats, steals, kills and starts wars over all of those? These are the people you want making personal choice for you??

Really?